Archive for February, 2010

  • Interface

    Drug Discovery: identifying potential therapeutics that inhibit opioids-induced glial cell activation

    Pain remains a significant public health issue with two-thirds of patients achieving little to no pain relief from the myriad of currently available pharmacotherapies and dosing regimens. The use of opioid (e.g. morphine) pharmacotherapies produces several rewarding and reinforcing side effects, which result in the...

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  • Non-polar contribution to solvation energy from Born models:

    Non-polar contribution to solvation energy from Born models:

    Solvation energy contribution to protein-ligand binding conceptually consists of two different contributions. The first one is collective in nature, comes from the long range interaction of the molecules charges with polar water molecules. The other comes mostly from the short range interactions of the molecules...

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